Police Snag Family For Fake Kidnapping 6-Year-Old Boy To Teach Him About Stranger Danger

An ill-thought out plan on teaching a lesson about stranger danger turned into an emotionally scarring and traumatic experience for a 6-year old boy in Troy, Missouri, when members of his own family conspired to stage his kidnapping.

The boy was forced to endure 4 hours of being bound and subject to verbal abuse after his aunt's co-worker snatched him up as he was walking to school. All four people who were involved in the staged kidnapping, the boy's mother, grandmother, aunt, and aunt's co-worker, were charged with kidnapping and other felonies.